When I was making the film, the idea was to make sure it's made at a budget where it would be profitable. Shakun tells Patcy N/ how he did it.ĭid you expect Kapoor & Sons to be such a hit? He made his own directorial debut with Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu five years later. The young director - he's only 33 years old! - didn't know anyone in the film industry when he came to Mumbai in 2005, but managed to get a job assisting Farhan Akhtar on Don the same year. They give you a piece of your own life, wrapped in meaning and clarity.S hakun Batra, who directed the hit Kapoor & Sons, is enjoying his success. This film about families and relationships will make you want to give your loved ones a big hug. It will be a tough order for any film this year to be as good as Kapoor & Sons. Thankfully the average choices don’t reflect on the content, which drives the film.Īll said and done, there’s no way on earth you should miss this movie. Also the cinematography and editing in Kapoor & Sons is not up to the quality of his first film either. The music in his latter film by Amit Trivedi was a better choice than the creations of Badshah and co. Going back to Shakun Batra’s decisions, even though Kapoor & Sons is a better film than his previous offering Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu, it still has grey areas. The acting in Kapoor & Sons is truly its strength. But the show stealer is Rishi Kapoor, acting under prosthetics and heavy makeup, he lets his eyes do the talking and his senile but colourful act makes you laugh and cry. Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak Shah are both in top form. The supporting cast hits a few home runs as well. Even though her character isn’t as prominent as the Kapoor brothers, in just a few scenes she does enough to bowl you over. His control and finesse at acting is jaw dropping.
And just when you think he’s great, he opens the Pandora’s box and unleashes a tsunami of talent. Fawad on the other hand plays the apple-of-everyone’s-eye character with verve. He plays the underappreciated sibling with shades of persecution complex to great effect. Sidharth delivers a strong and rightly nuanced performance. Their scenes together are casual and effortless, just like the rapport between siblings. Sidharth and Fawad showcase great chemistry as brothers. The leads, Sidharth Malhotra, Fawad Khan and Alia Bhatt are spectacular. The credit goes to performances that aren’t just great, they’re phenomenal. The drama, the conflicts and the love of this family makes Kapoor & Sons a compelling watch. The Kapoors are colourful people but as a family unit they’ve got a lot of skeletons in the closet. You’ve got two brothers Rahul (Fawad Khan) and Arjun (Sidharth Malhotra), their parents Harsh (Rajat Kapoor) and Sunita (Ratna Pathak Shah) and their spirited grandfather (Rishi Kapoor). The story deals with a Kapoor family based in Coonoor, a hill station in Tamil Nadu.
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Some moments in the movie are so brilliant they’ll choke you out. Their story, their dialogue and some of the situations they’ve created add depth to the movie. It’s like Kapoor & Sons recreates a reality and it does so with deftness and authenticity.ĭirector / writer Shakun Batra and his co-writer Ayesha Devitre Dhillon are the true heroes of this film.
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So when you see two brothers and their parents go through a series of bad decisions and their emotional repercussions you can only draw parallels to real-life experiences. Family flaws are sort of a neglected topic in India, just like depression.
Kapoor & Sons is an honest effort at portraying relationships and family dysfunctions. But this treatment doesn’t rob the film of its heart. Most of all, you’ll mildly scoff at the idea of it raining during an emotional scene of conflict. If you’ve seen enough films you’ll second guess when something bad is about to happen in Kapoor & Sons. Some of director Shakun Batra’s decisions with the screenplay are just too formulaic. It’s a minor grouse, simply a technical nitpick at the art of filmmaking. It might have the right ideas and the emotional maturity that’s rare in Hindi films, but it doesn’t take the best path at telling the story. The content of this film isn’t just good it’s relevant enough to overcome its minor flaws. Such are the themes at work in Shakun Batra’s Kapoor & Sons. Which is why endurance plays a big part in the success of families in our culture. Brushing things under the carpet comes naturally to us. Even though we feel a sense of love and respect towards our kin every day, we tend not to express it. Even when we can tell the difference between wrong and right, we tend to accommodate bad decisions.
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